Shawn's girlfriend, Lisa played by Lela Rochon referenced that she wanted lips like Whitney Houston. Later on that year she got to costar with Whitney in Waiting to Exhale.
There's a reference to Garrett Morris being shot. In real life he was shot twice during an attempted robbery in 1994.
During a discussion between the bothers, Marlon stated that Shawn was trying to look like Tupac. The previous year Marlon had co-starred with Tupac in the film Above The Rim.